The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-07-14
FOREIGN NEWS.
REDUCED REVENUES.

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year is %, 600, 600 francs.
DECREASED IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.
LONDON. July 1.-THE returns is
sued by the Board of Trade show i'm
ports during June decrease was e1,-
$50. 600 as compared with the same
month last year, and that the exports
decrease was 81 ,2S0 600, as compared
with June, 1886.
IN THE COMMONS.
LONDON, July Tn the House of
Commons tonight on a motion to be
made before the third reading of the
Crimes Bill, Mr.. Gladstone, amid pro-
lonped cheers made a counter motion
that the bill be read third time this
day three months. Mr.. Gladstone said
the bill was the conservative alterna-
tive to home rule and therefore bore
different effect from any ordinary Co
ercion bill. The old coercion measures
had been aimed at crime only, but
this new one, passing beyond crime,
aimed at societies. [Cries of hear hear.
Further the bill had been brought in
without any foundation such as under
laid all former coercion bills based on
the existence of exceptional crime.
MI. Balfour had desregarded all pre-
cedents requiring that Introduction of
correction be prefaced by statement of
exceptional crime. Mr.. Gladstone
over 1885 in view of the general dis
tress in Ireland was exceeding small.
Comparing the officials of the Tory
Government in power III Ireland in
1885 with those in power the I'll st
five months in 1887, there was a mark
ed decrease in the amount of agrarian
crime, yet in 1885 they had
refrained from introducing "a
coercive measure. From the
Nf N n
the past and present statistics afforded
no shadow of justification for the pres
emit measure. Another contrast was
that past ParliamentS had been nearly
unanimous in asserting to coercion,
while the bill was opposed by large
minority in the House and by a ma
jority of the people of the country; a
majority that was not likely to dimln-
ish. [Cheers.l If Parliament retained
any regard for the traditions of liberty
or party usageS, the measures would
be abandoned. What could they urge
to warrant such invasion of the peo-
pies liberties? While resenting the
fmputation that the Liberals had done
the same thing, he would admit
that past measures had been
failures. Moreover new Offenses were
created under the measure. The
Acknowledgement of Ireland has
dunlUU0u, dIu IL was wv 1dOO W OOHy
that the bill aimed at the suppression
of exclusive dealings that was far more
pardonable in the weak and poor than
in the rich and powerful, but it was
the exclusive dealings of the poor
against the strong which the bill
aimed at. If a new crime were
created the measure for its suppression
should operate impartially. [Cheersl.
The Government did not dare to lift a
-, Incnncn Of tho cYIOoQofinn that
it apply to England a provision such as
it's was forcing upon ireland. He con-
tended that the Government was bound
to extend to occupiers of land in Ire
land a perfect quality with trades
union as regards the right and practice
enjoyed by the latter among which
combinations and exclusive dealing
were sanctioned. AS the bill stood il
an Irishman joined an association it
was for Mr.. Balfour to say whether OF
not he became criminal by the act,
ICheers.l In conclusion Mr.. Glad
stone said that Ireland after seventy
years of oppression and wrong was IL
a state of misery and wretchedness
Hear! Hear!l. In the whole British
Empire, he said, there was not square
yard of land which England held by
| force alone except in ireland, where
force was employed Enthusiastic
1
was held by mastery, but the Govern
ment refused to learn that mastery in
volved responsibility ECries of Heart
They know that the whole literature Of
| the world was against them lCries Of
No!1. He challenged the Government
| to mention any authority who had re
viewed the relations between England
and Ireland without arriving al
a home rule solution [Cheersl
4 % alt
| ing for the union of the Empire, ;
fight in which the Liberals Joined
| Laughter and cheers. The Liberal:
| held that the charge of disunion was
ridiculous. lit was evident that thu
present state of affairs could not las
| long, as Mr.. Gladstone believed thai
every day tended to bring the Torie:
nearer stheir doom. Mr.. Gladstone
then moved for the rejection of tn
bill amid the cheers from the Liberals
| and Parnellites. MIR. BalfOur, replying
| to Mr.. Gladstone, first referred to TIN
charge that the Government haG
brought the bill as an alternative t.
| Mr.. Gladstone's Home Rule proposals
| If that was the case, he said, he fel
| justified in saying that it was sufficien
to recommend the measure to the &C
ceptance Of the House. The Govern
ment was mainly justified in in
Producing its proposals by thu
| state of social tyranny which haG
recently been created in Ireland,
| tyranny that attacked the rights ant
| liberties of minorities and most o
those elementary principles withou
| which a country could never be pros
porous. He commended that crime wa
| worse now in Ireland than in 1870
| when Mr.. Gladstone promoted coer
cion. He taunted0 Mr.. Gladstone
4 sx,kr In
an arbitrary coercive measure which
enabled the Irish Chief Secretary Il
imprison anybody at viii. He ridi
culed the comparison that had beel
made between trades union and so
societies whose object was the dismem
beTment of the empire, and which werI
supported by foreigners. The trade.
unions might well be indignant at /;
comparison of their honest, peaceful
efforts with those Of boycotters anC
political conspirators.
BLAINE OFF FOR SCOTLAND.
LONDON, July James G. Blainl
left to-day for Edinburg. He was &C
companied by the lord mayor OF Lon
don and Senator Hale of Maine. Thu
party occupied the royal saloon ca
which was decorated with flags and tn,
Maine coat of arms. Mr.. Blaine vii
be the guest, at Edinburg. of Andrew
Carnegie, and he is expected to speal
at reception organized by the peopl'
of Edinburg to show their recognition
of Carnegie's generosity to the city. 4.
FERDINAND ACCEPTS
Il TIREovA, July 6.-Prinee Ferdinan,
Of Saxe-C aburg- Goha, replying to tn
, Sobranie dispatch informing him of hi
election as Prince of Bulgaria, said b
was proud of the honor conferred upol
him and grateful for it. ST hope, . b
, added, Ito prove myself worthy of tn
i confidence of Bulgarian people. l ar
; ready to respond to the call and to de